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The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or… — Winston Churchill
There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles; but neither are they a lure or a promise that is of necessity betrayed. They are… — Michel Foucault
It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing--how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but… — Joyce Carol Oates
We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and… — Anne Rice
Art breaks open a dimension inaccessible to other experience, a dimension in which human beings, nature, and things no longer stand under the law of… — Herbert Marcuse
For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ… — Stanislaw Lem
Mom and dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me… — Bill Watterson
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. — Norman Vincent Peale
To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore. — Loren Eiseley
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. — Theodore Roosevelt
For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would… — John Calvin
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a… — Neal Stephenson
Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards… — C.S. Lewis
it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true… — Charles Dickens
I teach them correct principles and they govern themselves. — Joseph Smith, Jr.
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its… — Henry Ward Beecher
The daily press is the evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness.… — Soren Kierkegaard

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